Teardown
The gearbox in a village hand pump, after nine years
Community reverse-engineeredReport an IP concernGrace Wanjiru
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Donated unit · surveyed Feb 8, 2026
- Independent dimensional survey
- Empirical teardown analysis
How is it put together, and what is it made of?
- Parts cost
- $88 – $112
- Parts
- 17
- Fabrication files
- STEP · STL · DXF
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Wear patterns on a cast bronze worm drive that outlived its rated life by six years, and the two bearings that did not.
What you may do with this
No licence and no authorization. The survey is the publisher's own measurement of hardware they bought, and any patent or trade-dress question in your manufacturing jurisdiction is still yours to answer.
What the methods prove
Independent dimensional survey
Dimensions measured off the unit, then redrawn from those measurements.
Empirical teardown analysis
The unit disassembled and recorded part by part.
Everything published here is the publisher’s own measurement of a legally acquired, off-the-shelf commercial unit. Qatoto does not host manufacturer-internal documents and makes no clearance assessment of its own.
Report an IP concern about this teardown
Publisher attested on Feb 12, 2026 that the unit was lawfully obtained, that the data was gathered by measurement and standard disassembly, and that no vendor-confidential material was used.
Materials and composition
Every designation below carries how the publisher arrived at it. A material named from a datasheet or a supplier is not the same claim as one measured off this unit.
Case-hardened plain carbon steel, grade not marked
Gear pair · Metal alloy
Publisher's own description · declared, not measured
CNC milled · Black oxide, mostly worn off
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- CAD format
- STEP
- Bill of materials
- $88 – $112
- Parts
- 17
Manufacturing files
What a machine shop or a board house builds from.
Getting it made
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